Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, March 12, 2008 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Willisville Fire Department gets donation of truck

Only minutes after the meeting was called at the Willisville Volunteer Fire Department on March 6, a report came in on the radio about a fire near the community. Within seconds, 11 of the 16 volunteers vanished from the fire department to respond to the c...

Easter Bunny is featured guest

The Easter Bunny is headed to Prescott and hell be making his stop at the Nevada County Fairgrounds as part of the 14th annual Easter egg hunt. The event is slated for the Saturday before Easter, March 22, beginning at 9 a.m. According to Prescott-Nevada...

Ina Dickinson

Mrs. Ina Mae White Dickinson, 101 1/2, of Prescott, died Tuesday, March 4, 2008, at Hillcrest Care and Rehab of Prescott. She was born on July 22, 1906, in Nevada County, the only child of Samuel Hemingway and Sarah Elizabeth Jones White. She married in 1...

Leona Ballard

Leona Ballard, 81, of Mesquite, Texas, died Monday, March 3, 2008, in Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Ballard was a homemaker and a member of the Shady Grove Baptist Church of Prescott. A member of the Rose Garden Club of Prescott, Gideon Auxiliary, and was a mother ...

Jean Shaw

Wanda Jean Shaw, 74, of Hope, died Thursday, March 6, 2008, at Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock. She was born on Aug. 18, 1933 in Patmos, to Albert Glendon Powell and Bessie Pearl Cox Powell. She was a retired bookkeeper, former employee of Diamond ...

Roger Bennett

Mr. Roger D. Bennett, 86, of Hope, died Friday, March 7, 2008, in Christus St. Michael Health System in Texarkana, Texas. He was born on June 3, 1921, in Ithaca, New York to Howard Webster and Mary A. Dorn Bennett. He was a graduate of Cornell University ...